FlowersFrom The Man Who Shot
Your Cousin, as its long
name does not suggest, is
essentially made up of one person
(Morgan Caris) who writes, performs,
arranges, and records songs with
occasional help from some of his
many musician friends.

Morgan
spent the better part of his childhood
in Wappingers Falls, New York, listening to his parents'
old Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Neil Young records (namely Desire,
Songs From a Room and On the Beach.) In the late 80ies, still only a
teenager, he followed his family back to Paris, France, where in school, he met
and befriended Erwan.

Together they spent their time listening to
the Field Mice, the Go-Betweens, the Apartments...
and soon they started to write and record their
own songs. With singer Caroline, this became Loons,
a melancholic indie pop trio that released a few songs
on a number of compilations throughout the
90ies,
along with two albums (one on Elefant Records,
the other on Galaxy Train.)

All along, Morgan had also been writing songs that
were too dark for the Loons
repertoire and too personal to be left for someone else to sing.
It is from this stem that the songs of "Hapless"
(FMSC's first album) grew. They were
first played to live audiences in whatever cities Morgan
happened to be living in. Namely at an open mic in Paris' Pop In bar, hosted
by David-Ivar Herman Düne,
and in various other venues around Vancouver, BC, and the Pacific North West.

But it wasn't
until he came together again with Erwan (who had in the meantime set
up a small analog recording studio and launched what
has since become Waterhouse Records) that the songs
finally made it to tape, and from there found their way into people's heads.

What Now

Since the
release of the album, Morgan has toured the Pacific North West a few times and met some wonderful musicians
and people there. Among these is Ross Cowman of June Madrona
who aranged to make "Hapless" available in North America by
putting it on the catalog of Olympia Washington's very own Bicycle Records.

Meanwhile the internet has been doing its thing, so after a slow start
"Hapless" is now getting increasing
attention from music connoisseurs all around
the globe. Also, new Flowers From The Man Who Shot Your Cousin
songs are surfacing
here and there on various labels (Ronda's
mp3 single club, Waterhouse'sFolks Pop In at the Waterhouse
compilation and
Blog Up'sHave A Good Night Moon...) and a new
Hinah ep should be on its way...